Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1934  On May - 01 alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35   

1935  Boulder Dam completed on this day in history.   

1935  On May - 01 canada's first silver dollar is circulated   

1935  On this day in history royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V   

1936  Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades on May - 01.   

1936  FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis on May - 01.   

1937  On this day in history fDR signs act of neutrality   

1937  On May - 01 snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75   

1939  Batman Comics hit the street on May - 01.   

1939  Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) on this day in history.   

1940  On May - 01 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship   

1940  The 1940 Olympics are cancelled on this day in history.   

1941  "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York on May - 01.   

1941  Allied evacuation from Greece completed on May - 01.   

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on this day in history.   

1941  On May - 01 german assault on Tobruk   

1941  Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY on this day in history.   

1941  John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.   

1942  On this day in history radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  On May - 01 townsville put on invasion alert   

1943  On this day in history final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.   

1943  Food rationing begins in US on this day in history.   

1943  On May - 01 german plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta   

1943  German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes on this day in history.   

1943  On May - 01 johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)   

1944  Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight on May - 01.   

1944  On May - 01 pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)   

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails on May - 01.   

1945  On May - 01 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide   

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government on May - 01.   

1945  On May - 01 australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast   

1945  On May - 01 australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan   

1945  On this day in history general Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms   

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1218  On May - 01 birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)   

1218  On this day in history birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

1238  On this day in history birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on this day in history.   

1493  On May - 01 birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on May - 01.   

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on this day in history.   

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)   

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on May - 01.   

1240  On this day in history death of jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on May - 01.   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on this day in history.   

1447  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  On this day in history hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies